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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 870236" data-attributes="member: 4910">You're mixing up Law/Chaos with Good/Evil.  It wouldn't be Lawful of him to do so necessarily, but good and evil don't enter into the example you've posted - could go either way depending on the thief.  It could be Robin Hood killing some of the Sherrif's guardsmen who've been known to burn down villiages that didn't pay their exhorbitant taxes, or gang-rape barmaids.  It just as eaily could be a mass murderer that the guardsmen captured.  Even the law/chaos thing is shaky - just because someone is currently in power doesn't make everything they do or enforce lawful.  Law/Chaos again.  Also depends heavily on the society and the indivual owner.  Say we live in a roman style civilization where slave ownership is legal.  It is then not a crime.  Heck, if I treat my slaves like valued employees, with respect and difference and maintain them in a comfortable environment because I believe in maintaining my slaves in better conditions than they would have if left to their own devices it may well not even be an -evil- act.  It could be good.  Different strokes for different folks.  In my campaign outsiders are made of the belief that spawned them - anthropomorphic personification - their alignment is inherrant to their form.  If a celestial were to fall, they'd stop being a celestial.  They'd lose their [good] tag, their powers would mutate, and they would undergo physical changes to reflect their new state.  Similarly with a devil that ascended to grace.  In my games, 99% of outsiders wear their alignment on their sleeve so to speak.    I disagree with you.  Would it be evil to Hold Person then CdG them? They're not a threat while held and I had no reason to CdG them other than to end their life.  Do good people when they Hold an opponent have to wait around until the spell wears off to respond?  Or do they just have to tie people up and deposit them to the 'proper authorities'?  What if there -are- no proper authorities?</blockquote>

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